Heliopora somaliensis Gregory, 1900

Loeser, Hannes, Werner, Winfried & Darga, Robert, 2023, Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Rosssteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) - a revised and extended version, Zitteliana 97, pp. 89-147 : 89

Heliopora somaliensis Gregory, 1900

Plate 15: figs 4, 5

v1882 Polytremacis cf. Heliopora blainvilleana d’Orb. - Toula: 35, pl. 4, fig. 14.

*v1900 Heliopora somaliensis , n.sp. - Gregory: 298, pl. 2, figs 8 a-c.

v1911 Heliopora tenera - Trauth: 89, pl. 4, fig. 3, text-fig. 6.

v1932 Eomontipora harrisoni , sp.n. - Gregory: 93, pl. 3, figs 1-3.

v1948 Heliopora japonica n.sp. - Eguchi: 363, pl. 60, figs 1, 2, 5, 7.

v1981 Polytremacis edwardsana ( Stoliczka 1873) - Turnšek and Mihajlovic: 39, pl. 48, figs 1-8.

v1997 Polytremacis edwardsana (Stoliczka, 1873) - Eliášová: 69, pl. 8, figs 1, 2.

v2006 Pseudopolytremacis japonica (Eguchi, 1948) - Löser and Ferry: 485, fig. 6.9.

v2013b Polytremacis? tenera (Trauth, 1911) - Löser: 22, fig. 3.12.

v2019 Heliopora tenera Trauth, 1911 - Löser, Heinrich and Schuster: 326, figs 532a-c.

v2020 Heliopora somaliensis Gregory, 1900 - Löser, Mendicoa and Fernández Mendiola: 232, figs 8a-c.

Material.

LFU 8336 SG015228 #1; one thin section .

Dimensions.

(LFU 8336SG015228#1).

Other occurrences.

Lower Hauterivian of the European Boreal (France), upper Barremian of the Western Tethys (France), upper Barremian to lower Aptian of the Central Tethys (Bulgaria, Serbia), lower Aptian of the Central Tethys (Greece, Serbia) and the Western Tethys (Spain), upper Aptian of the Western Pacific (Japan), lower Albian of the Western Atlantic (Mexico), upper Cenomanian of the European Boreal (Czech Republic), Turonian of the Central Tethys (Somalia), Coniacian to Santonian of the Central Tethys (Austria), lower Eocene of the Central Tethys (Somalia) and the European Boreal (Czech Republic).

Figures

Plate 15. (1 - 3) Heliopora ramosa (d'Orbigny, 1849). LFU 8336 SG 015104. 1. Transversal thin section. 2. Transversal thin section, detail. 3. Longitudinal thin section. (4 - 5) Heliopora somaliensis Gregory, 1900. LFU 8336 SG 015228 # 1. 4. Transversal thin section. 5. Transversal thin section, detail. (6 - 8) Heliopora sp. 2, LFU 8336 SG 015021 # 2. 6. Transversal thin section. 7. Transversal thin section, detail. 8. Longitudinal thin section. Scale bars: 1 mm.